Excerpt: Trinity

With a deep sigh, she stuffed her hands in her pockets and looked down at her sneaker-clad size sevens. The coolness of the night air cooled her breath as she released it slowly, causing tendrils of white mist to dance around her head. She probably shouldn’t have been wandering around outside so late in the evening, but her parents’ worried expressions and murmured conversation were getting to her. She needed a quiet place to think, and she knew she wasn’t going to get that being inside the house. Plus, she was restless. She needed to be able to pace without disturbing others. Since it was going on midnight, pacing inside the house was out. Looking up at the night sky, she allowed her eyes to scan the heavens for familiar constellations.

The familiar. Yeah, that was ironic. Trianna snorted to herself, white mist of cooled air leaving her nose as twin swirls that rose over her head before dissipating. She rolled that word – familiar – around in her mind. Things that had once been as familiar to her as the lines on the palm of her hand had stepped way outside of the bounds of what was considered “familiar” to her and into another zone entirely, like the Twilight Zone.